BEN ELLIOT IN A ROW OF FINANCIAL SCANDAL INVOLVING PRINCE CHARLES

How the Conservative party chairman sold rare Covid tests and access to the monarchy to ultra-rich clients

BEN ELLIOT IN A ROW OF FINANCIAL SCANDAL INVOLVING PRINCE CHARLES
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Leaked emails reveal that Ben Elliot, the Conservative party chairmen and nephew of Prince Charles, used his luxury concierge company to provide his high-paying clients with access to Covid tests during the national shortage and private meetings with the Prince of Wales.

Conservative party chairman Ben Elliot arranged for his company’s clients to buy PCR and antibody tests for hundreds of pounds in the midst of a national shortage during the deadly first wave of the pandemic.

Emails show that at the same time as Elliot’s Conservative colleagues in government were battling to ramp up NHS testing, his company – Quintessentially was willing to introduce its wealthy clients to private companies offering testing.

The revelations follow claims that Elliot used this company to sell ultra-wealthy clients and Tory party donors access to Prince Charles. Elliot is the nephew of Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.

In one instance, a telecoms millionaire paid an annual fee of £15,000 to be an elite member of Quintessentially for several years before the company organised for him to fly to meet the prince over an intimate dinner in 2013.

As a result of the introduction the businessman, Mohamed Amersi, became a member of the prince’s inner circle and a trustee of one of his charities. He has since donated more than £1.2 million to the prince’s charities. According to leaked emails, Elliot responded to news of Amersi’s first donation to his uncle by writing: “Well done.”

The use of Dumfries House which the Prince of Wales borrowed £20 million to help preserve – to woo wealthy donors has repeatedly embroiled it in controversy. Many of the funds raised from these meetings eventually reached Charles’s foundations.

Quintessentially, co-founded by Elliot in 2000, boasts of its ability to “take care of every aspect of our members’ lives, ensuring they’re engaged and experiencing the absolute best the world has to offer”


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